E-Calendar September 2009
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Compiled by LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS

[Editor’s note: All submissions of upcoming
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LSW member Phil Fitzpatrick is the e-calendar editor. Send your info to him at calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org.

Why can I not stop hearing “See You in September” by The
Happenings (1966) or “The Green Leaves of Summer” by The
Brothers Four (1960) in the orchestra hall of my mind? No
sooner do these begin to fade out than Old Blue Eyes starts
in with “September Song” (1965) and I’m toast. Here,
with best wishes for a melodic and colorful September song
of your own, is your LSW September E-Calendar:

BLOGS/WEBSITES back to top

Ed. Note: Writers’ blogs are cropping up all over. Here
are a few we know of:

** Lake Superior Writers is working on a blog site that will
be up and running before the October e-calendar comes out.
Keep checking the LSW website for access and details. That
address is http://www.lakesuperiorwriters.org.

Update: Our blog is up and running, thanks to new LSW board member, Kyle Elden. Check it out at http://lakesuperiorwriters.blogspot.com

** Scott Edelstein's BloggingWriters.com, is now alive,
well, and open for LSW member comments. BloggingWriters.com
provides information, encouragement, wisdom, success
stories, and anything to help writers achieve their goals.
It’s a place to share, inform, celebrate, or kvetch.
BloggingWriters.com also contains the Literary Catbox, a
photo gallery of cats doing literary things, from holding a
writer’s manuscript in place to composing the great
Siamese novel.
Share your tales of success or woe; ask questions; offer
your fellow writers ideas and suggestions; or post a photo
or video of your cat working on its newest manuscript.
Visit www.Hel pingWriters.com and click Scott’s Blog on
the main menu.

** Randall Oelerich has set up a screenwriting website/blog
for doing story analysis, studying script character
development, analyzing existing film screenplays, and
related screenwriting skills. It’s called Lake Superior
Screenwriters and the website is
http://lss.borealonline.net.

If there are others, please send web addresses in for the
October E-Calendar.

LSW LITERARY EVENTSback to top

** Tuesday, Sept 29 from 6-8 pm: LSW will be hosting a get
together for members who are interested in facilitating a
writers group (of any genre) AND those who would like to
belong to a writers group. Writers groups offer support
and critique as you develop your manuscript. This will
be at the meeting room at the LSW office, 1301 Rice Lake
Road, Duluth. Sheila Packa, Mara Hart, and Cheryl Reitan,
experienced facilitators, will be there to present
guidelines, tips, answer questions, as well as help set up
the groups. All LSW members are welcome! If you need
more info, please email Sheila at
writers@lakesuperiorwriters.org or call the office at
722.3094.

AREA LITERARY EVENTS back to top

** Thursday, Sept 3 at 7 pm Kirsten Jacobson Stasney, author
of Thy Father's Will, a historical novel based on a true
story, will speak about her book at a Sons of Norway/Friends
of the Library program at the Riverside Methodist Church
located on North Highway 71, Park Rapids. Set in a Norwegian
Lutheran immigrant community between 1907 and 1918, Thy
Father's Will is based on true events that occurred between
1907 and 1918. A story of lives forever altered by the
damaging consequences of decisions made for all the right
reasons, the novel is a story of success and tragedy, of
identity defined and choices made in the context of time,
place, faith and heritage. Books will be available for sale
at the program, which will follow a short Sons of Norway
meeting. For more information, contact Irene Weis, Cultural
Director, Nordskogen Lodge 1-626, 218-732-8271,
ilweis@arvig.net or Sue Keller, President of Friends of the
Library at weluge@northlc.com.

** Friday, Sept 4 from 4-5 pm – Book signing: William Kent
Krueger Heaven’s Keep: a Cork O’Connor Mystery at
Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth,
MN 55802 218-722-5267 or 800-868-8904
http://www.norlights.com.

** Friday, Sept 4, 7-9 pm Ellie Schoenfeld will lead a
poetry reading at Jitters Coffee & Tea House, 102 W.
Superior St., Duluth, as part of the Duluth-Superior Pride
celebration. Call (218) 720-6015.

** Saturday, September 5, 11am-7pm Clover Valley Press will
have a booth at the Duluth-Superior Pride Festival. Jen
Wright, author of "Killer Storm" and "Big Noise," two
novels in her Jo Spence mystery series, will be on hand to
sign copies. Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., poet-ally Ellie
Schoenfeld will sign "The Dark Honey: New & Used Poems."
Free admission. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth.

** Saturday, Sept 5, 2:45 pm Poet Ellie Schoenfeld will read
from "The Dark Honey: New & Used Poems" at the Knife River
Arts & Music Festival, which runs from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.,
featuring music, poetry, and art. Call 218-834-3425 for
more information.

** Saturday, September 5, 5 pm The Saturday Salon at Drury
Lane Books presents Joan M. Drury reading from her novel
"Silent Words." This Minnesota Award winning mystery set on
the north shore of Lake Superior was recently reissued by
Clover Valley Press. Drury Lane Books, 12 E. Wisconsin St.,
Grand Marais, MN 55604. Call 218-387-3370 for information.

** Saturday, Sept 5 from 10 am to 6 pm, Knife River Arts &
Music Festival: Knife River MN features the following
writers and musicians:

* 10:00 - arna & georganne (nordic music)
* 10:45 - connie wanek (poetry)
* 11:00 - kathy mctavish(cello dreams)
* 11:45 - sheila packa(poetry)
* 12:00 - high volt rustler(music)
* 12:45 - stephen dahl(prose)
* 1:00 - billy southern (music)
* 1:45 - bart sutter(poetry)
* 2:00 - stone circle(celtic music)
* 2:45 - ellie schoenfeld (poetry)
* 3:00 - sivertones(music)
* 3:45 - joyce sutphen(poetry )
* 4:00 - jim madison (music)
* 4:45 - louis jenkins(poetry)
* 5:00 - ninety to the dozen(celtic music)

open artist studios: dale burton forge, stewart river boat
works, laura stone mosaics, patricia canelake, frank
sanders, lawrence jones, brad nelson jewelry, playing with
yarn. For additional information or questions, call us at
218/834-3425.

** Monday, Sept 7, at 6:30 pm "Words and Lyrics," an evening
for writers and those who enjoy listening to creative
writing, will be held on at the First Stage of the Lyric
Center for the Arts, 514 Chestnut Street, Virginia. Writers
are invited to discuss the writing process and read from
their work to an appreciative audience. Held on the first
Monday of every month.

** Thursday, Sept 10 from 6-7 pm - Book Talk: Jeff
Alexander’s Pandora’s Locks - Speaking at the Healing
Our Waters Conference DECC Harbor Ballroom.

** Saturday, Sept 12 from 12-1 pm – Book signing: Tony
Dierckins - Crossing the Canal at Northern Lights Books &
Gifts, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN 55802 218-722-5267
or 800-868-8904 http://www.norlights.com.

** Saturday, Sept 12 9 am – 4 pm - Harvest Festival &
Energy Fair Northern Lights Books & Gifts will be selling an
array of books centering on sustainability issues at Duluth
Bayfront Park.

** Monday, Sept 21 - 9:30 am - 4:00 pm ONE-DAY ART WORKSHOP
Art: Pastels - Painting the Autumn Landscape instructor:
Diana Randolph at the Cable UCC Church located on County
Highway M in downtown Cable Class number 64580 Catalog
number 42-815-408 Class fee: $24.28/$4.00 Senior Fee.
Celebrate the vibrant colors of the season of autumn by
expressing the landscape using the medium of dry pastels -
not oil pastels - in this one-day workshop. Bring along
photos you¹ve taken depicting autumn and use them as
reference to create paintings on paper with appealing
compositions, focal points, and an overall mood. Seeing
color as value and capturing the essence of the autumn
landscape will be emphasized. Beginners and artists with
previous pastel painting experience are invited to enroll.
Participants may bring a sack lunch or lunch may be ordered
from Brick House Cafe and Catering. There is a supply list
for this class. To register, please phone WITC - Ashland
715-682-4591, ext. 3170.

** Saturday, Sept 26 1-2pm – Book signing: Lara Zielln
Donut Days at Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park
Drive, Duluth, MN 55802 218-722-5267 or 800-868-8904
http://www.norlights.com.

** Saturday, October 3 from 11 am -12 noon, Jess Lourey will
be signing copies of September Fair, the fifth installment
in the Minnesota-based Murder-by-Month mysteries, at
Northern Lights. September Fair earned a starred review from
Booklist, which called it "a delicious dish of murder,
mayhem, and merriment!"

** Northern Lights will be holding a Chapter & Verse Book
Club chapter beginning in October. Author and writing
instructor Linda Glaser will be the facilitator. This is the
fifth book group of its kind with adults meeting to discuss
children’s and YA books on the third Thursday of every
month, each book club discussing the same two books.

Exhibits

** Friday, Sept 11 - an exhibit called Northern
Lights/Winter Skies at MN Discovery Center (formerly
Ironworld) in Chisholm, MN Theme: Northern Lights/Winter
Skies; Runs: Sept 11th - Nov 29th; Where: MN Discovery
Center, Chisholm, MN. We are looking for readings that would
be on that theme for scheduling additional programs during
the exhibit. Also please contact me below if anyone knows a
book artist relating to this theme that would like to
display their work for the exhibit, please send their
contact information to me and let them know of the call.
Maggie Holmes at education2@hotmail.com or call 218-254-7959
x 255 office hours (Mon & Fri).

LSW MONTHLY GROUPS back to top

Editor’s Note: Since there are at least
two or three different sources for “monthly group”
information, all monthly groups must submit announcements
each month in order to be included in the LSW e-calendar. Thank you.

** Monday, Sept 14 at 6 pm The Children's Writers Group will
meet at Chester Creek Café at 1902 E. 8th St. The group
will review last month's submission and any new material
submitted.

** Wednesday, Sept 16 from 6-8 pm Third Wednesday
Fiction/Poetry Writing Group, at Chester Creek Cafe, 1902 E.
8th Street. Contact Jill Hinners (349-6431) or Cheryl Reitan
(creitan@d.umn.edu, 218-728-3154.

** Thursday, Sept 17 Writers' Square Table at 11:30 am
Chester Creek Café, 1902 E. 8th St.

** Sunday, Sept 20 Memoir Group at 1:30 pm Downstairs at
Chester Creek Café, 1902 E. 8th St.

** Thursday, Sept 24 Play Reading Group. 5:00 pm Chester
Creek Café,1902 E. 8th S

LSW KUDOS News about LSW Members back to top

** Cecelia Lieder and Jan Chronister will be among the
featured poets at “Waters: Prose and Poetry by Minnesota
Writers” on the weekend of September 11-13 at the
Bloomington TheaterArts Center. Contact information:
www.bloomingtonartcenter.com
<http://www.bloomingtonartcenter.com> or call 952-563-8575
or 952-563-8575.

** Liz Minette's poem "blossoms drifting" has been accepted
for publication in the Fall edition of Main Channel Voices,
Winona, MN. http://www.mainchannelvoices.com.

** Mary Ellen Ryall's column “Butterfly Corner” was
published by Washburn Country Register each week throughout
August. The articles address the plight of the monarch
butterfly and butterfly news from Happy Tonics, Inc. a
nonprofit environmental education and food safety
organization and public charity. You can learn more about
their quarterly newsletter Butterflies and Gardens on the
Internet at http://www.happytonics.org Food Safety News can
also be read on Ryall's blog at
http:///tonicosfelices.wordpress.com.

** New Book Release: Shirley Wuchter announces the last book
in the series of sermons of her late husband, The Rev. Dr.
Michael D. Wuchter, pastor at First Lutheran Church from
1997-2000. Walking with Christ: Sermons for the Summer
completes the series of four books now available at
Northern Lights Books and Gifts in Canal Park, Duluth.

** "Freight," a poem by MARK MAIRE, was selected as a
winning poem in the 2009 mnLIT literary competition, and
will be part of the What Light series on
http://www.mnartists.org.

** Eric Chandler had three pieces of flash fiction published
in the August edition of Oeuvre Magazine, Duluth &
Superior's Arts and Literature Web Magazine.

** ARAC Awards Announced – Many Local Winners:
- Arna Rennan - Duluth ($1,000) Ms. Rennan will use this
grant to work on paintings for three weeks at Svolvaer
Kunstnerhuset, a center for artists to work and live in a
town in the Lofoton Islands off the coast of Norway.

- Susan Spencer - Duluth ($1,000) Ms. Spencer will use this
grant to travel to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to
participate in a festival/concert tour and mentoring
opportunity.

- Daniel Neff - Duluth ($1,000) Mr. Neff will use this grant
to purchase equipment to enable him to produce a new series
of work for exhibition in Kansas City and in Bonner Springs,
Kansas, March 5 to 7, 2010.

- Ron Benson - Duluth ($1,000) Mr. Benson will use this
grant to prepare work for an art exhibit at The Lake
Superior Museum in Duluth from July 17 to August 8, 2009.

2009 McKnight/ARAC Fellowship Awards
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council received 29
applications requesting $112,000 from artists working in
three different disciplines for their McKnight/ARAC
Individual Artist Fellowship Program. The fellowship
applications were reviewed by a panel consisting of: Glenn
Gordon, Twin Cities photographer, designer and arts critic;
Cynthia Belmont, working poet and professor of literature at
Northland College in Ashland, WI; Greg Moore, working
msuician and head of the Jazz Studies department at the
University of Wisconsin-Superior; and Alison Hiltner, Twin
Cities sculptor, installation artist and SOOVAC Gallery
staff member. Of those that applied, seven artists received
fellowships of $4,000 each. The following artists received
Fellowships.
- Frank (Tim) Byrns, Duluth,is a sculptor who works with
large pieces of local figured hardwood. His work is rooted
in the compositional elements of the raw form, such as the
colors, shapes, textures and grains found in his materials.
He has exhibited and won awards at the Duluth Art Institute,
Duluth; in Lakeville, MN; Eagle River, WI; Grand Marais, MN;
and in Minneapolis, MN. He holds a Bachelor of Science
degree from the University of Wisconsin, Superior. Mr.
Byrns will use his fellowship award to purchase materials,
document his completed works and allot time to focus on his
work.
- Eun-Kyung Suh, Duluth, designs sculptural vessels that are
created out of diaphanous textiles, using a design
originally inspired by a traditional Korean wrapping cloth
called Bojagi. Her interest in Bojagi is not in recreating
traditional Bojagi but extending the basic patchwork
structures into sculptural vessel forms. Folding, wrapping
and sewing are employed to transform two-dimensional fabrics
into three dimensional enclosed forms. Ms. Suh holds a
Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa and
has exhibited throughout Minnesota, in St. Petersburg,
Russia; in Switzerland; and throughout the United States.
During the fellowship year, she will work to create five
major installation pieces and attend a two-week workshop at
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME.

- David Bowen, Duluth, produces kinetic and robotic systems
that are set in motion to create drawings, movements,
compositions, sounds and objects based on their perception
of and interaction with the space or time they occupy. He
holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, and has exhibited throughout the
United States as well as in Russia, Spain, Norway, Belgium,
Hungary and Thailand. Mr. Bowen will use the fellowship
funds to update the equipment necessary to do his art and
will produce a robotic installation that will be exhibited
both nationally and locally in one-person exhibitions.

- Cole Perry, Bovey, has finished writing his first novel,
Estuary, and is currently preparing the book for
self-publication. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Philosophy and English Literature from McGill University in
Montreal, Quebec. He has a prose poem entitled "Dear Abby"
published in Oxfamily and a micro-fiction published in Only
One Shot Only entitled "Horsetaste." Mr. Perry will use the
time allowed by the fellowship to edit and rewrite portions
of the novel in preparation for publication.

- Justin Rubin, Duluth, composes primarily chamber music
that has a very chormatic, yet accessible approach to
tonality and is not restricted by style or systems. He
holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition degree from
the University of Arizona and was awarded the Broadcast
Music Incorporated Student Composer Award and the Plymouth
Music Series Essentially Choral Composer Award. His
composition, Durkh u Durkh, for violin, mandolin and guitar
was performed by Duo46 with Avi Avital at the Soundscape
Music Festival in Pavia, Italy, in 2008. He has had work
performed in Serbia; at the Boston Conservatory; at the St.
Petersburg Conservatory, Russia; and at Le Conservatoire
Centre Georges-Gorse in Paris. Mr. Rubin plans to document
some of his recent compositions with a professionally
recorded CD to present to potential performers around the
country.

- Betsy Husby, Duluth, is a cello recitalist who is
interested in the emotional impact and cultural influences
of the music she performs. She holds a Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from the State University of New York and has
received numerous awards. Ms. Husby has performed in the
International Tchaiskovsky Competition; in Petrozavodsk as
part of the Sister City program; in Greensboro, North
Carolina, as a tribute to one of her instructors, Bernard
Greenhouse, as well as in several cities in Minnesota and
Wisconsin. During her fellowship year, Ms. Husby will tour,
both regionally and nationally, a recital call "Mostly
Living Composers," with the first concert premiering the
works of three regional composers.

- Lorie Scott, Duluth, holds a doctorate in flute
performance from the University of North Texas and is
establishing her career as a flute performer, scholar and
educator. She has produced an edition of Sigfrid
Karg-Elert's Thirty Caprices for Solo Flute and has received
an acceptance from Sir James Galway to perform these works
from this edition at his summer 2009 Flute School in Weggis,
Switzerland. Ms. Scott will perform in Switzerland, has
performed in Minnesota and Texas and produced several
recordings.

For further information about grants and other ARAC
services, please contact: Robert A. DeArmond, Executive
Director, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, 1301 Rice Lake
Road, Suite 111, Duluth, MN 55811 phone: 218-722-0952;
1-800-569-8134; email: info@aracouncil.org website
www.aracouncil.org.

Workshops/Submissions/Conferences/Opportunities/Deadlines back to top 

** Call For Proposals: Lake Superior Writers seeks writers
or writing instructors wishing to offer workshops or classes
during the academic year 2009-2010. Deadline is September
30. An applications form will soon be available at
http://lakesuperiorwriters.org or call 218-722-3094 and
leave a message requesting an application form.

** Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis is seeking writing
submissions of short non-fiction, fiction and poetry in
conjunction with sculptor Rob Fisher's exhibition, which
will open here in September. Rob's work, titled "Few
Landmarks, No Boundaries" is centered on the idea of "the
open road": Rural landscapes, personal transformation and
travel, and the mythological American road trip. To
compliment this, we are seeking writings on these themes,
which we'd like to post to our new website for the run of
the show. We are also interested in selecting a few works to
be read aloud at the closing event (for which a small
honorarium would be provided). The show opens on September
10; our deadline for submissions is rolling through
September (although September 1 might be a good date to
set). We'd love to get some works from writers up North!
Colleen Harris, Program Assistant
colleen@franklinartworks.org.

LSW INFORMATION back to top

Lake Superior Writers prohibits discrimination in its programs, membership, and board of directors participation on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status or family status.

ABOUT THE LSW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE LSW MEMBERSHIP Member Involvement: We value our membership and encourage your involvement in LSW. An annual meeting for LSW members is held in the spring. All members are invited to participate. Financial reports and a summary of the year's activities are presented to the membership at the annual meeting for review. The LSW board meets monthly throughout the year. Members are invited to attend board meetings, review minutes, and look over financial statements.

Lake Superior Writers Calendar back to top

THIS CALENDAR is a benefit of your membership in Lake Superior Writers. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the literary arts. We welcome information from you regarding events, classes, kudos or announcements to be included in upcoming calendars.We reserve the right to edit all submissions.

Your editor for this issue of the e-calendar was LSW member and volunteer Phil Fitzpatrick. Thank you for contributing and for reading. Address all calendar events to calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org. Address all concerns or questions about the calendar to Phil Fitzpatrick c/o pfitzpa@charter.net.